Every North West coronavirus case by postcode as government warns over 'staggered' ease of lockdown

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Nine further coronavirus-related deaths have been confirmed by trusts in Lancashire, bringing the county's death toll to 689.

East Lancashire Hospitals NHS Trust has recorded a total number of deaths at 142, with Blackpool Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust at 137 and University Hospitals Of Morecambe Bay NHS Foundation Trust at 153.

Lancashire Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust has recorded 138 deaths while Southport and Ormskirk Hospital NHS Trust has a total of 119.

Meanwhile, across the North West as whole, including Manchester, Liverpool and Cumbria, there are 20,964 cases.

There are 842 cases in Bolton, 590 in Bury, 953 in Cheshire East, 881 in Cheshire West and Chester, 2,012 in Cumbria, 335 in Halton, 584 in Knowsley, 1,497 in Liverpool, 1,204 in Manchester, 808 in Oldham, 566 in Rochdale, 768 in Salford, 846 in Sefton, 681 in St Helens, 908 in Stockport, 504 in Tameside, 644 in Trafford, 650 in Warrington, 828 in Wigan, and 1,067 in Wirral.

You can enter a postcode below to find out the cases near you.

Across the UK, there are 201,101 who have tested positive for the virus.

The death toll stands at 30,076.

The figures come as the Prime Minister is set to review the lockdown as the plan to ease measures moves forward.

Boris Johnson will meet with ministers today to review whether it is safe to ease lockdown measures, as one of his Cabinet colleagues warned people to “not get too carried away” with what might be announced.

The Prime Minister will chair a Cabinet meeting for a legal review of the restrictions to see what freedoms the public may now be able to enjoy while the spread of the coronavirus is kept under control.

The meeting comes as the Bank of England warned that coronavirus could see the economy plunge 14% this year in the worst annual fall for more than 300 years.

It also emerged that a Government-promised shipment of 400,000 protective gowns for NHS staff from Turkey has been impounded in a warehouse after falling short of UK standards.

The Government has come under increasing pressure to announce when schools and shops will reopen, whether strict social distancing rules can be relaxed, and when family and friends can meet up after more than six weeks apart.

The UK Government has stressed that it wants all parts of the UK can move together in easing the measures, but decisions in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland will be for leaders there and so far they have not been told what Mr Johnson is planning.

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The changes could include unlimited exercise, the return of some sports, park picnics, and the opening of pub and cafe gardens – but people would still be required to remain two metres apart.

The move could also see the Government scrap its “stay home” slogan, and encourage people to wear face coverings on public transport and in crowded places as some return to work.

Mr Johnson hinted he will announce a limited return to pre-pandemic life in an address to the nation on Sunday, with new measures set to come in as early as Monday.

But Northern Ireland Secretary Brandon Lewis urged people not to be too expectant ahead of the announcement, with the Government keen to avoid a second wave of Covid-19 triggered by relaxing measures too quickly.

He told Sky News: “I think it would be wrong to get too carried away.

“I think we’ve got to understand that this is a pandemic and a virus that spreads so easily that we have to be very cautious as we look at how we come out of the current lockdown.”

He added: “The worst thing that could happen would be to have a very fast, quick and dangerous second peak to this virus.”

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Mr Lewis also described how the consignment of gowns, flown in by the RAF from Turkey last month, was deemed too poor in quality to be used by health workers.

He said: “There was a view that it was good enough PPE (personal protective equipment), it is only when it has got here that teams have looked at it again and taken a view that it is not up to the right standard and they’ve decided not to use it.

“If something isn’t right, if we’re not even sure about it then I think it is better to be safe and not use that product and stick with products we are confident are the right products and the right standards.”